Career planning and your motivation

By now, as you revise your career planning, I am hoping you have realised that it takes more than money to motivate you. Most people don’t realise this and think that if they earn enough money then everything will work itself out – It’s not true.

One of the reasons you may keep believing this is because lots of companies want you to believe it. It’s in their interests. These are the kind of companies whose job adverts should read

“This jobs pretty crap, no fun and really hard work, so we give you a big salary to compensate”

I think lots of companies actually believe it too.

However you know that it takes way more than money to find your ideal career.

Here is a great we video that explains motivation in a very cool and interesting way. Fascinating.

6 Comments

Andrew Walker
on October 1, 2012 at 10:38 am

I discovered the same video my accident too recently. It’s great!
Some say, it’s “counter intuitive” but for me, deep down, I have always known this to be the case.
I also read a book by Daniel Pink, “A whole new mind”.
The direction of our economy is changing.
Check out Richard Florida, also on the RSA video feed.

Earlier comments are spot on, a “Faustian pact” or some kind of tussel between Machiavelli, Erasmus and Darwin to decide who wins the day and gets to continue living their life?

Martin does a valuable job here.
Like a Budha, travelling across the internet and sowing the seed of reality that we all know in our hearts, that business is a totally un natural place to be.
The old ways of motivating people to “make stuff” in factories in Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham or Cardiff by thrashing people soundly, has run its course.

If I had £5,000 for every crap manager I have had, I wouldn’t need to work again.
Then I could go and do something I really enjoyed, which engaged me and allowed me to help others.
It’s the getting back up, off the floor that’s so hard.
The more desperate you become, the harder it is to get up.

Breaking the circle of despair, it seems you have to give a lot to be seen as a return on investment.
If you give a bit first, it takes away the feeling that you owe them.
Once you have proved your value, then you can work on your value to your new employer, but on your terms.

I have decided that I am tired of seeing jobs which ask if you are driven. I should answer, ‘driven where?’ I cannot stand the hyperbole. It is so false and meaningless to me. What I can understand is doing a job and if I like it or not.
I agree that motivation means everything.
However in the meantime, in realtime, I feel like I have to make some sort of Faustian pact just to get a job in order to survive now . What I want IS a dream job but it isn’t just around the corner today.

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